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March. 1770.    The Trapps

7. Almost calm so we remaind in the same place nearly all day to far from the land to see any thing of it at least to depend upon our observations

8. Little wind and fair, which carried us to the Southward far enough to ascertain that the appearance seen to the Southward in the eve of the 6th was nothing but clouds  tho from its fixd & steady appearance nobody at that time doubted in the least its being land.

9. At the first dawn of day a ledge of rocks were discoverd right to leward & very near us so we had much reason to be thankfull that the wind in the night had been very gentle otherwise we must in all human probability have ran right among them  at least we could have had no chance of escaping them but by hearing them as there was no moon - the land appeard barren & seemd to end in a point to which the hills gradualy declind  much to the regret of us Continent mongers who could not help thinking this  a great swell from S.W. & the broken ground without it a pretty sure mark of some remarkable Cape being here   by noon we were pretty near the land which

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